Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form on the greens as "a basic squatting position," a technique he developed as a caddie in San Francisco. It served him so well that for three years in a row, he was lowest-scoring amateur in the city's Lucky International Open and soon had himself a sponsor, Eugene Selvage, a retired brewery president. Archer was installed at Selvage's 5,000-acre Hereford ranch in Gilroy, Calif., where he painted fences and cleaned out the barns in the morning and played golf in the afternoon. The "Golfing Cowboy" turned...
...committee will seek out and sponsor programs with a community orientation. For example, tutorials should be supplemented or replaced by relevant field community activity...
Idea Gambler. Notebook got out of the ghetto because (briefly) it had a sponsor, Burlington Industries. When the Burlington people saw a preview of Notebook, complete with Bacchic frenzies and the ghostly prowl of transvestites in the night-shrouded Colosseum, they dropped the option even though it was too late for NBC to change the schedule. Notebook's love affair with Imperial Rome resulted from the fact that Director Federico Fellini made it while at work on a movie based on the bawdy remnants of Petronius' Satyricon. His declared intention in making the TV film was to portray...
...class, they are portrayed not as the agents of class-conflict but as fascist pigs. From accounts I have seen, the brutality of the police action consisted as much of psychological shock as of real physical abuse. Any abuse of police power is deplorable; still, if one wants to sponsor revolutionary, up-against-the-wall-type confrontations, one ought to accept the accompanying risks and not be too quick to cry foul...
...moderate group announced that it will sponsor a mass meeting at 10 a.m. today in Sanders Theatre to discuss the demonstration...